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KakeraBeetle Queen Conquers Tokyo
(Country: Japan; Director: Katsuhiro Otomo; Writer: Izô Hashimoto, based on the manga by Katsuhiro Otomo.; Cast: Nozomu Sasaki, Mitsuo Iwata, Mami Koyama, Hiroshi Ôtake)
The classic anime tale of rivalry between two boys who uncover the mysterious secret of a post-apocalyptic world.

(Country: Japan; Director: Ryosuke Hashiguchi; Writer: Ryosuke Hashiguchi, Ryosuke Hashiguchi; Cast: Lily Franky, Tae Kimura, Tamae Ando, Hirofumi Arai, Mitsuko Baisho, Akira Emoto, Ryo Kase, Reiko Kataoka, Yuichi Kimura, Rie Minemura)
Witty drama about eight years in a marriage.

(Country: Japan; Director: Satoko Yokohama; Writer: Satoko Yokohama; Cast: Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Kumiko Aso, Arata, Yumiko Fujita, Yoshio Harada, Seiji Nozoe, Misako Watanabe)
A traumatised school teacher attracts the attentions of a 'differently wired' young man.

(Country: US; Director: Jessica Orek)
A documentary exploring the Japanese fascination with insects, made by an entomologist from New York's Museum of Natural History.

(Country: Japan; Director: Tsuta Tetsuichro; Cast: Makoto Adachi, Toshio Ando, Kakeru Hirasawa)
A film noir focusing on a young man who works on an artificial island made of rubbish and becomes an eco-terrorist as a consequence, launching deadly bomb attacks.

Zero FocusAkira
(Country: Japan; Director: Momoko Ando; Writer: Momoko Ando; Cast: Hikari Mitsushima, Eriko Nakamura, Ken Mitsuishi, Tasuku Nagaoka)
One love, two girls, Japanese-style.

(Country: Japan; Director: Akira Kurosawa; Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Mieko Harada)
A warlord splits his kingdom between his sons only to see the older two cause chaos as they battle for supremacy in this vivid Japanese reworking of King Lear.

(Country: Japan; Director: Hajime Kadoi; Writer: Akira Yoshimura, Dai Sakô; Cast: Kaoru Kobayashi, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Nene Otsuka, Ren Ôsugi, Keiichi Asada, Asami Imajuku, Taro Kanazawa, Shuuji Kashiwabara, Yuji Kato, Lily, Ren Murakami, Shunpei Ohtani, Gô Rijû, Hideo Sakaki, Toshio Sakamoto)
An unlikely friendship develops between a prison guard and a death row prisoner.

(Country: Japan; Director: Takashi Miike; Cast: So Sakurai, Fyoko Fukada, Saki Fukude)
Two teenagers and their giant robot dog take on the minions of an evil villainess with a succession of bizarre leather outfits in this adaptation of the hit TV anime.

(Country: Japan; Director: Isshin Inudou; Writer: Seicho Matsumoto; Cast: Ryoko Hirosue, Miki Nakatane)
A young woman begins to uncover dark secrets as she searches for her husband who has disappeared shortly after their wedding night.


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Jean-Pierre Améris talks about his comedy Romantics Anonymous.

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McQueen, Fassbender, Cronenberg, Durkin, Olsen, Payne talk about clothes and authenticity

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